Neuromuscular transmission studies in human chronic Chagas' disease.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Elderly people are at a high risk of developing vitamin D (VitD) deficiency due to both decreased intake and cutaneous synthesis. Most of the biological actions of VitD are mediated by the vitamin D receptor (VDR), which is present in neurons and glial cells of the hippocampus, and in the cortex and subcortic...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Oliveira ACR,Magalhães CA,Loures CMG,Fraga VG,de Souza LC,Guimarães HC,Cintra MTG,Bicalho MA,Sousa MCR,Silveira JN,Silva IFO,Caramelli P,Carvalho MG,Gomes KB

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal medial sclerosis (TMS) is characterized by hippocampal sclerosis in temporal and by distinguished grades of injury near to other neurological structures such as: amygdaloid nucleus, parahippocampal girus and entorhinal region. The study analyzed 40 patients with TMS and 40 people from the control cluster....

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Chaddad Neto F,de Oliveira E,Paschoal E,Cendes F,Santana Filho M

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in cardiac rhythm may occur during epileptic seizures and this has been suggested as a possible mechanism for sudden unexpected death amongst patients with chronic epilepsy (SUDEP). We have studied ECG changes during 61 complex partial seizures of temporal lobe origin in 20 patients. Tachycardia was observed i...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Li LM,Roche J,Sander JW

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the survival rate according to the main findings of emergency electroencephalography (EEGs) of patients treated in a tertiary hospital. METHOD:In this prospective study, the findings of consecutive emergency EEGs performed on inpatients in Hospital de Base in São José do Rio Preto, Brazil were c...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Borges MA,Botós HJ,Bastos RF,Godoy MF,Marchi NS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracranial lipoma are usually localized in the corpus callosum and rarely extends to the subgaleal region. Only eight cases of lipoma of the corpus callosum with extracranial extension were reported in the literature. Seizures and mental retardation were the most common clinical findings in these patients. Data from...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Martins RS,Ciquini Júnior O,Matushita H,Plese JP

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) are lysosomal storage diseases in which a specific enzyme defect causes glycosaminoglycans storage in tissues. The authors present a necropsy case of a 10 years old boy with clinical and laboratorial diagnosis of MPS. The necropsy revealed thickening of meninges, cardiac valves and hepa...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Torres LF,De Noronha L,Jacob GV,Antoniuk S

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome is a neurodegenerative disease, autosomic recessive with two clinical features: early and late onset. Psychiatric, pyramidal and extrapyramidal signs are present in the late subtype. We report the case of a 41-old woman with extrapyramidal signs. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed the ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Farage L,Castro MA,Macedo TA,Assis MC,Souza LP,Freitas LO

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author gives a brief overview of the career of Professor Octávio da Silveira, the first neurologist and professor of neurology in the State of Paraná, as well as the first full professor of clinical neurology in the Federal University of Paraná. ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Teive HA

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophilic granuloma (EG) is a benign condition of histocytes proliferation localized or multifocal. It is presents in the cervical spine in 1.5%-20% of the cases of EG. We report the case of a seven-year-old girl that presented with a one month history of cervical pain, persistent wryneck and vicious posture of the...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Leal Filho MB,Aguiar Ade A,de Almeida BR,Dantas Kda S,Vieira MA,de Morais RK

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymomas are tumors characterized by a remarkable morphological heterogeneity and variable clinical behavior. This tumor has unique clinical associations, most notably with hematological abnormalities and myasthenia gravis. According with the Müller-Hermelink criteria, there are significant differences between the his...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Reis Filho JS,Milanezi MF,Moreira CG,Werneck LC,Boscardin P,Ioshii SO,Schmitt FC

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on 15 cases of medulloblastoma of adult onset (8 male and 7 female) operated upon posterior fossa approach from February 1988 to October 1995. Tumors were localized in cerebellar hemisphere in 7 cases (one with extension to supratentorial notch and another case reaching the cerebello-pontine angle cistern), ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Aguiar PH,Prudente M,Freitas AB,Rotta JM,Plese JP,Andrioli MS

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the long-term effect of botulinum toxin type A (BTX) in the treatment of hemifacial spasm (HFS), a retrospective analysis of patients treated at the Movement Disorders Unit of the Division of Neurology, Clinical Hospital, University of São Paulo, School of Medicine from 1993 to 2004 was made. A to...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Barbosa ER,Takada LT,Gonçalves LR,Costa RM,Silveira-Moriyama L,Chien HF

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Few studies have addressed early cerebrovascular lethality in Brazil. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate 10 and 28-day stroke case-fatality rates in three hospitals in three Brazilian cities. METHODS:We described the stroke registries in São Paulo, João Pessoa, and Natal. RESULTS:Out of a total of 962 first-ever event...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Fernandes TG,Goulart AC,Campos TF,Lucena NM,Freitas KL,Trevisan CM,Benseñor IM,Lotufo PA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the reasons for referral to electrodiagnostic evaluation, 490 patients referred for electrodiagnostic evaluation to two laboratories (UNIFESP and UNEF) answered the following question: "What was the reason that brought you to look for a physician and that led him to ask this examination?" Paresthesia and/or p...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Campos CC,Manzano GM,Castelo Filho A,Nóbrega JA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considering the genetical peculiarity of Charcot-Marie-Tooth's muscular atrophy, a family with three affected brothers was investigated, in which beginning date was discovered to be progressively antedated. Afterwards, this possible variant of anticipation is discussed, because such condition is quite ununsual, not on...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Gonçalves A,da Salva JB

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the predictive value of cerebral ultrasound in infants diagnoses on meningitis neonatal to the neurological outcome. METHOD:A retrospective study of 16 children admitted at Institute Fernandes Figueira RJ-Brazil, who had neonatal meningitis and were examined by cerebral ultrasound. The neurologic...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Monteiro AM,Bomfim O

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present our experience with 36 cases of nonfunctional pituitary adenomas. These tumors were divided into non reactive and inactive in agreement with the immunohistochemical study. They present with visual symptoms, mainly bitemporal hemianopsia; they were macroadenomas, either invasive or non invasive, in both grou...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Tella OI Jr,Herculano MA,Delcello R,Aguiar PH

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who has a nemesis fear as the basic process in his psychoneurosis feels that he is destined to repeat the life course of one of his parents to eventual long-term psychosis, or incapacitating physical illness or death by illness or accident. He feels that this will occur at about the same age as that at which...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Chapman AH,Chapman-Santana M,Vieira e Silva D

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of the pretreatment and post-treatment albumin level, neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in subtypes of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). A retrospective analysis of 62 patients with GBS treated between 2011 and 2015 in ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Ozdemir HH

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Analysis of 52 pediatric patients with head trauma assisted at Intensive Care Unit; to present considerations about epidemiologic factors of trauma, clinical presentation, tomografic aspects, hemodynamic changes and treatment options of intracranial hypertension; to present considerations about the intracran...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Maldaun MV,Zambelli HJ,Dantas VP,Fabiani RM,Martins AM,Brandão MB,Lopes CE,Honorato DC

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to analyze different immunoglobulins classes (IgG, IgM, IgE and IgA) against Cysticercus cellulosae in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), through enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), correlating them to clinical and tomographic profiles in patients with neurocysticercosis (NCC). Eight...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Odashima NS,Takayanagui OM,Figueiredo JF

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most important methods and results found in literature on immunoglobulins of the normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are reviewed. A study was made of immunoglobulins in the CSF of 50 individuals who suffered from chronic migraine but showed normal results for the physical and neurological examinations; electroenceph...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Livramento JA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed a group of patients with the diagnosis of internal carotid aneurysms in its intracavernous segment, with emphasis in prevalence, clinical features, treatments, evolution and neurological prognosis. Neurological signs and symptoms at initial presentation were registered and compared with final outcome. Pati...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Vasconcellos LP,Flores JA,Veiga JC,Conti ML,Shiozawa P

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:West syndrome (WS) is a severe epileptic encephalopathy of childhood, characterized by spasms, developmental deterioration and hipsarhythymia. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety and efficacy of vigabatrin (VGB) in the treatment of WS. METHOD:We evaluated every patient diagnosed with WS seen at the pediatric ...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Moraes MH,Montenegro MA,Franzon RC,Avila JO,Guerreiro MM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effectiveness of balance exercises by means of virtual reality games in Parkinson's disease. METHODS:Sixteen patients were submitted to anamnesis, otorhinolaryngological and vestibular examinations, as well as the Dizziness Handicap Inventory, Berg Balance Scale, SF-36 questionnaire, and the SR...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Severiano MIR,Zeigelboim BS,Teive HAG,Santos GJB,Fonseca VR

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitary granulomatous lesions due to cysticercosis in the brain were found by computed tomography in six patients. The CT images were in all cases very similar to those from brain neoplasms. The cerebrospinal fluid complement fixation test for cysticercosis was negative in all of the cases. The definite etiological d...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Shibata MK,Bianco E,Moreira FA,de Almeida GM

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Studies have established higher prevalence of psychiatric disorders in diabetic patients. OBJECTIVE:To describe the socio-demographic and clinic characteristics and to compare the frequency of them in the diabetic and non-diabetic populations. METHOD:Transversal study with comparing groups. Eighty four d...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Clavijo M,Carvalho JJ,Rios M,de Oliveira IR

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a potential threat to patients with autoimmune disorders, including multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD). Such patients are usually treated with immunomodulatory or immunosuppressive agents, which may tamper wi...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： ApÓstolos-Pereira SL,Silva GD,Disserol CCD,Feo LB,Matos AMB,Schoeps VA,Gomes ABAGR,Boaventura M,Mendes MF,Callegaro D

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the clinical characteristics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in Fortaleza (Northeastern Brazil). For this, we analyzed retrospectively (from 1980 to 1999) 78 cases of ALS from the Service of Neurology of the University Hospital of Fortaleza diagnosed clinically and laboratorially (EMG, muscle biops...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： de Castro-Costa CM,Oriá RB,Machado-Filho JA,Franco MT,Diniz DL,Giffoni SD,Santos TJ,da Cunha FM,de Bruin VS,Teixeira CA

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:True neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is an uncommon disorder despite of be a frequent reason for referral to the EMG laboratories. We describe the second case in the literature of true TOS in a competitive swimmer with progressive weakness and severe atrophy of the left thenar eminence. EMG showed lower trun...

journal_title：Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria

authors： Almeida DF,Meyer RD,Oh SJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00